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PENINSULA OF LIES: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love.
Edition: First UK printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54368More details Price: $18.00 -
SOUTHERN CROSS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring San Francisco investigator John Marshall Tanner, but set in Charleston, South Carolina. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-688-12772X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64651More details Price: $18.00 -
MAMBA'S DAUGHTERS: A Novel of Charleston.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Literary Guild, (1929.) dj. Hardcover - Novel set in Charleston, South Carolina, and written primarily in dialect. The basis for both the Broadway drama and the Gershwin musical "Porgy and Bess." 311 pp.. Illustrated endpapers. These early Literary Guild books were attractive productions with stylized dust jacket art.
Condition: Very good in beige cloth in a good only dust jacket (chip to base of spine of dj, some toning and discoloration)
Book ID: 62484More details Price: $24.50 -
THE FIREMAN'S FAIR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern writer's third novel, set in Charleston, SC just after a hurricane struck. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-670-839078.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (remainder line)
Book ID: 7464More details Price: $14.00 -
A TURN IN THE SOUTH.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the US South - from Atlanta to Jackson, Tuskegee to Charleston, tobacco farms and the birthplace of Elvis, with visits to an old white Charleston family, a black woman minister, and Eudora Welty, by this Trinidadian born author, and Nobel prize winning writer. ISBN: 0-394-564774.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (some foxing to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 56579More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ATLANTIC SOUND.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 29458More details Price: $20.00 -
BLACK GENESIS: A Chronicle.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Macmillan, 1930. Hardcover first edition - Contains tales of the Gullah Negroes of the Carolina low country [told in the Gullah dialect] and, as the title implies, based on the first book of the Bible. In the introduction - "The family tree of Gullah folk speech and folk tales" - the authors comment that "to trace the family tree of Gullah, the language of these stories, is a moving human adventure. . it is the strongest linguist connection between America, the Antilles and Africa; it links two hemispheres and two eras." Foreword by DuBose Heyward. Illustrated by Martha Bensley Bruere, xxix. 192 pp. Green and white illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Very good in green cloth with black lettering and a small illustration on the front cover (some toning to the spine)
Book ID: 88786More details Price: $40.00